India, Dec. 17 -- A Mumbai gangster, whose name was once only whispered in the shadows, returned to the city on Tuesday, after he was arrested for the 2022 daylight killing of a property developer in Virar east.

Subhash Singh Thakur, now 74 years old, was brought to Virar by the Crime Branch of the Mira-Bhayander-Vasai-Virar (MBVV) Police, from Fatehgarh Central Jail in Uttar Pradesh, where he is serving a life sentence in another case.

Charged under provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), Thakur was produced before a special MCOCA court in Thane and remanded to police custody till December 22.

In their remand application, police claimed Thakur was the mastermind behind the murder of a local builder, Vishw...